Chapter 44: The Gulf Battle

Seeing this, I thought to myself that the news of our attack on the bend must have been exposed, otherwise the Dutch soldiers would not have sent people to resist so quickly.

So I immediately gave the order: "The army is ready to fight, and the archers and firearms battalions are the first to strike!" ”

The reason why I wanted the archers and the firearms battalion to attack was because I didn't want to go into contact with the Dutch.

Just as the archers were about to release their arrows, the Dutch soldier on the iron ship asked in English in surprise, "Whatdoyouwant?" ”

The soldiers on the warship were dumbfounded when they heard this, but the buddy didn't, because the buddy understood English.

The Dutch soldiers were asking us what we wanted to do.

Judging by their facial expressions, they didn't seem to want to fight me.

"Do you want to rebel?" Another Dutch soldier who spoke Chinese asked.

I grass! Hearing this, buddy, I was also confused, what the does this mean?

As soon as the Dutch soldiers finished speaking, one of them took out his musket and prepared to open fire on us.

At the moment when he was about to pull the trigger, Lao Tzu opened his bow and shot him to death.

“FUCK!”

The Dutch soldiers shouted, drawing their muskets and preparing for battle.

Although their muskets were powerful, they were loaded after one shot, and it was extremely troublesome to reload, while the Ming army was much faster in archery.

In this way, more than a hundred Dutch soldiers on the iron ship were quickly wiped out by us.

It was a flight of death, and only one of the Ming soldiers was killed, and eight were slightly wounded.

After repelling the Dutch soldiers, the soldiers hurried into the bay, and I saw from afar the Dutch soldiers, who had just escaped, running rapidly towards the castle of Geranza on the sandbank, shouting as they ran.

In a short time, hundreds of Dutch soldiers rushed out of the castle gates, ready to stop us from landing on the beach.

Just after we landed on the main island of Taiwan, the Dutch soldiers rushed to the other side of the bay, but they could not help us at all, and could only fire with muskets, but unfortunately the distance was too far to reach us at all.

In this way, the Ming soldiers landed on the island of Taiwan almost unscathed!

……

After landing on the main island of Taiwan, I did not immediately storm the castle of Geranza, because the soldiers marched in a hurry for a day and fought the encounter they had just fought, and they were really tired and could not bear it.

So I set up camp on the beach and prepared to storm the castle of Geranza early tomorrow morning.

After settling the soldiers, I called Zheng Chenggong and Chen Jinnan to my tent and discussed with them the plan to attack the castle of Geranza.

After discussing the siege of the city, my buddy I chatted with the two of them and said, "Although I broke Wu Sangui's main force in just one month and took the three towns of Quzhou, I am now about to recover Taiwan. But I'm really still in the groping stage for marching and fighting, and I really want to learn some self-defense martial arts now, just in case I need it! ”

Hearing this, Zheng Chenggong's turtle son pursed his lips and laughed.

I know why he laughed, he remembered that day in Ningde, I thought I could shoot Wu Sangui, but I didn't expect to be almost killed by Wu Sangui in the end.

It was also after experiencing Wu Sangui's counter-killing that I became more and more determined to learn martial arts. Not to mention how high the martial arts are, at least you must be able to defend yourself, so as not to repeat the situation you had last time.

Seeing that Zheng Gongcheng was laughing, Chen Jinnan patted him, signaled him not to be rude, and then said: "Your Majesty, it is naturally a good thing that you want to practice martial arts, but practicing martial arts is not achieved overnight, it needs to be done step by step!" ”

"I know that Zhang Zhao has already told me this truth! But I really want to learn martial arts this time, even if it's a little slower, it doesn't matter! Anan, why don't I learn from you in the future! ”

Chen Jinnan said with an embarrassed face: "It's not that the villain is unwilling to go to the Pope, but the villain is busy with official business, and he has to manage the Heaven and Earth Society, so he can't be by the emperor's side at any time, and he can't guide the emperor in time." If the emperor really wants to practice martial arts, the villain can recommend someone to the emperor! ”

"Who better fit than you?" I asked curiously.

As a result, as soon as the words fell, a soldier with his hair tied and uniformed rushed in at the gate of the tent, and he said loudly: "I am more suitable than Chief Helmsman Chen!" ”

Hearing this, I looked at the soldier and was about to ask who he was, but the soldier took off his helmet and said with a smile: "Brother Emperor, let me teach you!" ”

Forehead......

That soldier was actually Mu Xia's unruly little county lord!

"Little county lord, why did you come here?"

I asked, shocked, because I didn't take her with me when I set off.

"Brother Emperor, I heard that you were going to attack the Dutch, so I wanted to come over to help you, so I asked the sailors of the Zheng family to send me here."

After speaking, the little girl ran behind me, and said while beating me on the back: "Brother Emperor, don't be angry, don't be angry!" ”

Although she flattered me in every possible way, I was really angry about this, because when Mu Tianbo left Fuzhou, she specifically told me to take a good look at her, but I didn't expect her to be so bold that she dared to come to Taiwan alone.

Just when I was about to scold, Chen Jinnan said with a smile: "Your Majesty, in fact, the person the villain wants to recommend is the little county lord. Although the little lord is not a first-class master, he has more than enough basic skills in the pope. Moreover, the little county lord has no official duties, so he can follow the emperor and protect the emperor's safety! ”

After Chen Jinnan finished speaking, I thought about it for a while, and it felt quite reasonable.

Ever since I crossed over, it has always been Frost Er who has been protecting me, but Frost Er is the imperial concubine after all, and it is impossible for her to follow me outside to fight at any time.

And this unruly little county lord not only has much higher martial arts than Shuang'er, but also is not as rigid as Shuang'er, so it is indeed not bad to take her with him.

Thinking of this, I held back my anger and said to Mu Xia: "Little county lord, for the sake of your eldest brother Mu Tianbo's face, I will accept you as a master, and in the future, you will follow me and teach me martial arts!" ”

"Okay, good boy!"

Saying that, Mu Xia twisted my arm behind violently, and I almost didn't scream out of the pain, making Zheng Chenggong and the others laugh from ear to ear!

……

Early the next morning, the Ming soldiers, under my own command, prepared to attack the Dutch at the castle of Geranza on the other side of the bay.

According to the tactics discussed last night, Chen Jinnan led a dozen or so small boats to pretend to land on the sandbar outside the city from the front.

Zheng Chenggong and I then moved our forces out of the bay and prepared to land on the back of the sandbar to avoid the main fire of the Dutch.

But what we didn't expect was that the large force had just circled behind the sandbar when suddenly the main battleship of the Dutch appeared with three whoosks.

Before we could react, the main battleships of the Dutch opened fire on us, and the Ming army was caught off guard and immediately joined up with their short troops.

Although the Dutch had only three warships, the firepower on both sides of the ships far exceeded that of the Ming army, and soon six of the Ming army's small boats were sunk.

Seeing this, not only the soldiers of the Ming army panicked, but even Zheng Chenggong didn't know what to do.

It was at this time that I discovered that although the Dutch battleship was welded with steel, and although there were cannons on both sides of the ship, which looked indestructible, there was no firepower directly in front of the battleship, that is, on the wheelhouse.

So I immediately redirected the large force and drove the ship directly under the bow of the Dutch capital battleship.

When the ship reached the bow of the Dutch battleship, the Dutch soldiers did not know what to do, because the guns on the side of the ship were welded to death, and they could not move at all.

The buddy stood on the small boat and gave an order, and took the lead in rushing to the Dutch battleship, and then the Ming army and the Dutch soldiers fought each other.

Seeing that we had boarded the ship, the Dutch captain hurried out of the wheelhouse, and with his powder gun ready to fire at me.

Lao Tzu rushed over with an arrow and kicked him to the ground with a fierce kick, and before he could react, Lao Tzu took out the dagger at his waist and pierced his neck.

He was bleeding profusely and died tragically at the door of the cab.

The buddy quickly cut off his head, carried his head and walked to the deck, and said in English to the Dutch soldiers who were still resisting: "If you dare to resist again, you will be like him!" ”

After saying this, the Dutch soldiers on the deck knelt down with their heads in their hands, begging me not to kill.

I ordered my men to trap them, and then I took them up to the sandbar behind the city of Geranza, and prepared for a final assault.